Condition: Very Good. Very Good condition. A copy that may have a few cosmetic defects. May also contain light spine creasing or a few markings such as an owner's name, short gifter's inscription or light stamp.
Language: English
Published by Salmon Poetry (edition ), 2003
ISBN 10: 1903392330 ISBN 13: 9781903392331
Seller: BooksRun, Philadelphia, PA, U.S.A.
Paperback. Condition: Very Good. It's a well-cared-for item that has seen limited use. The item may show minor signs of wear. All the text is legible, with all pages included. It may have slight markings and/or highlighting.
paperback. Condition: Very Good. Very Good - Crisp, clean, unread book with some shelfwear/edgewear, may have a remainder mark - NICE PAPERBACK Standard-sized.
Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Signed. Signed by author. Sticker remnant on back cover. Light shelf wear. Else clean and tight.
Seller: WorldofBooks, Goring-By-Sea, WS, United Kingdom
Paperback. Condition: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
Seller: Better World Books, Mishawaka, IN, U.S.A.
Condition: Very Good. Reissue. Former library copy. Pages intact with possible writing/highlighting. Binding strong with minor wear. Dust jackets/supplements may not be included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.
Trade Paperback. Condition: Very Good. edges foxed.
Seller: Better World Books Ltd, Dunfermline, United Kingdom
Condition: Good. Reissue. Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.
Paperback. Condition: Used-Very Good. Pap. Minor shelf wear.
Paperback. Condition: New.
PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.
Paperback. Condition: New.
Condition: New.
Condition: New.
PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.
Condition: New. Brand New! Not Overstocks or Low Quality Book Club Editions! Direct From the Publisher! We're not a giant, faceless warehouse organization! We're a small town bookstore that loves books and loves it's customers! Buy from Lakeside Books!
Condition: New. Brand New! Not Overstocks or Low Quality Book Club Editions! Direct From the Publisher! We're not a giant, faceless warehouse organization! We're a small town bookstore that loves books and loves it's customers! Buy from Lakeside Books!
Language: English
Published by Salmon Poetry, Co Clare, 2009
ISBN 10: 1907056017 ISBN 13: 9781907056017
Seller: Grand Eagle Retail, Bensenville, IL, U.S.A.
Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. "Through their simple, plain-spoken respect for the ordinary forces of the landscape she loves - for its fauna and flora, its 'season of stillness' or its 'disconsolate cry of the lost' - the poems in Joan McBreen's quietly lyrical fourth collection compose a settlement for the heart, even a site for soul-pondering. In brief elegies and celebrations her poems address losses, local phenomena, familial transitions, fashioning language-moments of subdued rapture (bird wings 'the colour of opals') or sharply accented nostalgia (living away from Ireland, she writes that 'one seashell to hold close/ to my ear would do,/ and rain on my face'). 'I sing my own song,' she says in one poem, and in the best of these poems her notes ring sweet and clear, so even winter clouds can 'break, letting in such light.'Eamon GrennanJoan McBreen is from Sligo. She divides her time between Tuam and Renvyle, County Galway. Her 2009 publications include a collection, Heather Island and the anthology The Watchful Heart - A New Generation of Irish Poets - Poems and Essays. Together with her ongoing involvement with Irish literary festivals such as the Yeats Summer School, Clifden Arts Week, Listowel Writers' Week and The Cuirt International Festival of Literature, since 2007 she has been Literary Advisor and co-ordinator of the Oliver St. John Gogarty Literary Festival at Renvyle House Hotel, Connemara, Co. Galway. In her fourth collection, Joan McBreen interrogates loss and completes a tentative journey of renewal. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
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Language: English
Published by Story Line Press 12/8/2020, 2020
ISBN 10: 1586540653 ISBN 13: 9781586540654
Seller: BargainBookStores, Grand Rapids, MI, U.S.A.
Paperback or Softback. Condition: New. The Wind Beyond the Wall. Book.
Language: English
Published by Story Line Press 12/8/2020, 2020
ISBN 10: 1586540637 ISBN 13: 9781586540630
Seller: BargainBookStores, Grand Rapids, MI, U.S.A.
Paperback or Softback. Condition: New. A Walled Garden in Moylough. Book.
Paperback. Condition: New. The forty poems in this first book by an Irish writer explore a variety of traditional and contemporary themes that combine to create the modern Irish consciousness. Beginning with poems that look back forty years or more on a childhood spent in the fabled country of Sligo, the book moves effortlessly to present-day issues of raising a family and making sense of the political turmoil unique to the country. Throughout the collection, McBreen also grapples with the contemporary Irish woman's fight to assert her independence, asserting her own generous autonomy in the process. McBreen's readers will quickly recognize the foundations of one of the world's great oral traditions behind these evocative lyrics, and they will come away knowing much more about everyday Irish life than they did before.
Paperback. Condition: New. A Walled Garden in Moylough demonstrates the ultimate gift of Joan McBreen's poetry: her ability to distill the essence of a moment. She does this with an effortless elegance, a sure touch, and a lyric voice which is attuned to the inward echoes of the psyche.
Paperback. Condition: Good. The book has been read but remains in clean condition. All pages are intact and the cover is intact. Some minor wear to the spine.
Language: English
Published by Salmon Poetry, Co Clare, 2017
ISBN 10: 1910669822 ISBN 13: 9781910669822
Seller: Grand Eagle Retail, Bensenville, IL, U.S.A.
Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. "Joan McBreens Map and Atlas comes to us from a confluence of two great rivers; two streams of thought, the one private, the other public. Her map-work has been achieved through observation and memory, through a restlessness in nature and clear-headed observations made through windows flung open.Here is a poet widely travelled, from Omey to Wellington, but with the lens constantly looking inward: The senses are not visionary/ and we ask neither more nor less/ of this earth in whose measure/ we are fixed. Map and Atlas is a work of great emotional clarity and honesty, a poetry at once intimate and universal, from a poet who goes from strength to strength with every year that passes." Thomas McCarthy The fifth collection of poems from Irish poet Joan McBreen. Together with reading and lecture tours of the US, McBreen is closely associated with most of the major literary festivals in Ireland. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
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Language: English
Published by Salmon Poetry, Co Clare, 2003
ISBN 10: 1903392330 ISBN 13: 9781903392331
Seller: Grand Eagle Retail, Bensenville, IL, U.S.A.
Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Winter In The Eye: New & Selected Poems brings together Joan McBreen's recent work with poems selected from her two previous collections, The Wind Beyond the Wall (Story Line Press, 1990) and A Walled Garden in Moylough (Story Line Press and Salmon Publishing, 1995). Winter In The Eye: New & Selected Poems brings together Joan McBreen's recent work with poems selected from her two previous collections. This volume captures her elegant and finely-tuned lyric voice. A subtle simplicity of language makes her poems of place and home all the more powerful; highlighting moments of universal awareness and reaching beyond the poet's life into our own. McBreen's recent poems about illness and loss are written with a spare, unflinching beauty. Her moving, elegiac tone is ultimately a celebration, as darkness gives way to light. This is a poetry that seeks and reaches toward harmony, and truth. Joan McBreen's first two collections of poetry were The Wind Beyond the Wall and A Walled Garden in Maylough. This collection brings together more recent work, with poems selected from the previous collections. It captures her elegant and finely-tune Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
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hardcover. Condition: Very Good. HARDCOVER Very Good - Crisp, clean, unread book with some shelfwear/edgewear, may have a remainder mark - NICE Standard-sized.